36 A note on Haléyudha. { March, 1905. 
“this great Pundita (Halayudha) was the spiritual guide of 
Laksmana Sena, a renowned monarch, who gave his name to an 
era of which upwards of seven hundred years have expired. Hala- 
yudha was a decendant in the fifteenth degree of Bhatta Narayana, 
author of Venisamhara (a celebrated drama) and one of the five 
Vedantists, who were brought from Kanouj by Raja Adigura and 
whose descendants are almost all the Rarhi and Barendra Brah- 
manas of Bengal.” 
Now, three questions arise here for decision :— 
(1) If Halayudha, the author of Brahmanasarbasva, did 
really belong to the Chatta family as stated by Lala 
Mohana Vidyanidhi, or the Bandya family as stated 
by Muktarama Vidyabagisa and his followers. 
(2) If he was the prime minister of Lakshmana Sena, the 
son of Kegaba Sena and great-grandson of Ballala 
Sena. 
(3) Who was he in fact ? 
At a certain date in his reign Ballala Sena, the King of 
Bengal, madea gift of a golden cow. Some Brahmanas of the Rarhi 
class after causing that cow to be cut into pieces, accepted the gift 
of gold. Their names areas follows: Samkara Pitamundi, Diva- 
kara Garagari, Douka Gura, Dokari Pippali, Martanda, Anai, 
Ganai, Hara and Gopee Bandya, Dokari Mashachataka, Madhu 
Sudana Rayee, Yaba Kusari, Narayana Hara, Kesava Dayaree, 
Kesgava Mahinta, Sakuni Chatta, Nayari Tailabati, Visvesvara 
Kunda, Bithu Bandya, Madana and Visvesvara Ghoshala, Hasya 
Ganguli, Goutama Putitunda, Parasara Simah, and Samkara 
Dingsai. 
According to the injunction of the social law and royal com- 
mand, the above-named Brahmanas, who accepted| the forbidden 
gift, the goldsmith, who cut the golden cow into pieces, and the 
Vanika, who bought or sold those pieces of gold, were all 
degraded.* 
! Preface of wawreyw by the late SyAmacharana Sarakara, pages 28, 24. 
aa quaat aa et fama wife: | 
al a qUHayaseen Gat qs! | 
feat afeaqat tat qatat afaanteag | 
fam: ufaqeietian aauateeqtat | 
UPFE: Ulaqwl wa aststu a featae: | 
aseisaatat w etafesa faust | 
aerariieatar a auttsgeaat | 
aaifag aurfay eretatat a agar | 
